"Life is a festival only to the wise." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Life is a festival only to the wise."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities…
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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the…
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not…
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial…
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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the…
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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
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A little praise goes a great ways.
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There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the…
— Jean Baudrillard
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'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year…
— Annie Besant
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Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.
— Bjork
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So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?
— Christina Aguilera
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What they did was to make a pilot and it may well go to series at the next festival but…
— Jo Brand
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To go to the synagogue with one's father on the Passover eve - is there in the world a greater…
— Sholom Aleichem
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Though it's frequently portrayed as this crazy, unbridled festival of rain-soaked, stoned hippies dancing in the mud, Woodstock was obviously…
— Richie Havens
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Thus one of Europe's most serious crises will be ended, and all of us, not only in Germany but those…
— Adolf Hitler
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Suffering is not holding you. You are holding suffering. When you become good at the art of letting sufferings go,…
— Rajneesh
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Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the…
— Pierre de Coubertin
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In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one…
— George Gissing
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